Our Best ideas for using bilingual texts The most common use of a ‘bilingual text’ in the secondary Languages context is possibly the flashcards teachers ask students to create for themselves (or sometimes provide for them) for revision of vocabulary, or for...
A Languages Celebration Evening – Hosted by the Brayford Language Hub (one of the NCLE Language Hubs) On Thursday the 17th October, the Brayford Languages Hub, led by the Priory Academy LSST, held their inaugural Celebration of Languages. This event not only...
What is your thinking … on international visits? The 2024 Language Trends includes in its headlines ‘Decreases in international engagement in both state primary and state secondary schools’. ALL Members know from their own experience the importance and inspiration...
The Big Idea: Student Voice, civic engagement and the arts. This blog reports on a sustainable development project at the Peace School, a community-based heritage language school in London providing Arabic language and culture education. Supported by Young Brent...
The Debate on Developing Speaking in Classrooms Post Covid. During the Covid pandemic 2020-2022, Speaking in language lessons was discouraged on medical grounds and began to disappear from language teaching and assessing and is only now beginning a resurgence. A...
Language learners have their say from the NCLE team In the National Consortium for Languages Education the team has put Pupil Voice at the heart of work on revitalising languages teaching. As part of the focus on motivation, many of the lead hubs engaged with pupils...
